The Sessions (2012)

6.9 | May 02, 2012 (US) | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 01:35

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Budget: 1 000 000 | Revenue: 9 138 338

The festival hit of the year!

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.